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A widowed, aging mother allows her thirty-something daughter Green to move into her apartment, hoping she will find a stable life with a good husband and a family. But Green arrives with her long-term girlfriend, and the mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome the relationship. Told in a stream-of-consciousness voice from the mother's perspective, this prize-winning debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality and the generational divide, while touching on the cost of living, discrimination against LGBTQ people, ageing and loneliness in South Korean society. Translated by Jamie Chang.